Tibetan Plateau and the Wider Himalayan Cryosphere — Global Warming, Black Carbon, Water and Human Security
The Tibetan Plateau and wider Hindu Kush Himalayan cryosphere demonstrate how global atmospheric change becomes a regional system of changing glaciers, snow, water, hazards, ecosystems and human security. Black carbon adds an important regional forcing mechanism, but it does not replace greenhouse-gas-driven warming as the principal cause of long-term cryosphere loss.